The stack : on software and sovereignty / Benjamin H. Bratton.
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TextSeries: Software studiesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]Copyright date: ℗♭2015Description: xx, 502 pagesContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262330183 (ebook)Subject(s): Ubiquitous computing | Computer software -- Human factors | Computer software -- Social aspects | Computer software -- Political aspects | Computers and IT | Media studies | Software Engineering | Social & political philosophy | Computer programming / software engineering | Computer scienceGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780262029575Summary: A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? Benjamin Bratton proposes that smart grids, cloud computing, mobile software and smart cities, universal addressing systems, ubiquitous computing, and other types of apparently unrelated planetary-scale computation can be viewed as forming a coherent whole - an accidental megastructure that is both a computational apparatus and a new geopolitical architecture.
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A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack -- an accidental megastructure -- is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? Benjamin Bratton proposes that smart grids, cloud computing, mobile software and smart cities, universal addressing systems, ubiquitous computing, and other types of apparently unrelated planetary-scale computation can be viewed as forming a coherent whole - an accidental megastructure that is both a computational apparatus and a new geopolitical architecture.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780262029575
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